The troops, and one or two trenchcoated agents, continue entering the house and heading upstairs, still with rifles ready. Upstairs, crowded in the narrow hallway, the troops descend on a bedroom. Now Dade winces, in fact we almost expect him to cry.

The later was wholly spanned east-to-west by the bustling Oregon Trail and its hitchhiker emigrant trails, the California Trail and Mormon Trail which since hitting stride in 1847, had been conveying settler wagon trains to the west, and incidentally, across the Continental Divide into the Snake River Basin, a key gateway into the Idaho and Oregon Country interiors., was passed by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on December 7, 1864, six weeks before the territorial legislature's session legally began, and after litigation, on a split decision decided by one vote on the territorial Supreme Court on geographic lines. These people were well-represented in the early territorial legislatures, which often clashed with the appointed Republican territorial governors.

For a dare, I dared the teen girls to lip-synch to a Taylor Swift song of their choosing (A dare, FYI. One of them rolled her eyes and said she didn't like Taylor Swift — you could see the teen embarrassment of not wanting to like the thing that her peers liked — and offered to lip-synch instead to a parody of "Blank Space" by the You Tube star Shane Dawson. It was a nostalgic rush to watch these girls lip-synch along to a pop star from inside their bedrooms — an activity that I have done not infrequently myself.